Communities that do not have their own kindergartens or those with an insufficient number of kindergartens will have to build or purchase new ones, according to a notice issued by the State Council, China's cabinet.

Existing community-affiliated kindergartens should all be handed over to local education and administrative authorities to be turned into public or inclusive private ones, the notice said.

Such kindergartens should be non-profit, it added.

A task force will be set up for the campaign with officials from the State Council, the Ministry of Education and several other ministerial-level departments.